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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

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Organization: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Facebook has been a highly effective tool and is the strongest in communicating the message of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, but also allows people to connect and offer support to each other. Organization Size: Medium. Name: Allison Nassour. Title: Social Media Manager.

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Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized!

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For example, the Latin America Work Group’s website is www.lawg.org , but when the organization was setting up its profiles on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, “lawg” was not available on all three sites. It will help you centralize all your efforts and reduce the amount of spam and notification e-mails sent to your work e-mail account.

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7 Online Fundraising Tips I Learned By Participating in Movember

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For the past 30 days I have been participating in Movember : a worldwide team fundraising campaign to fight men’s cancer. The mustache becomes the ribbon for men’s health, the means by which awareness and funds are raised for cancers that affect men. was the most effective, and what type of message generated the most giving.

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10 Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits

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For example, Alley Cat Allies’ Cat-alyst Society – Monthly Giving Program : This page should have a URL that can be easily promoted in print newsletters and postcard campaigns, such as alleycat.org/givemonthly. For example, the Nature Conservancy offers both honor gifts and memorial gifts – each with their own donation page.

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NPTech Summary: Happy Holidays!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. The PeaFund Friday Campaign PeaFund Friday is an amazing example of the power of social media for social change. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

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Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. What questions are you asking?

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Live Blog Post from MacArthur Foundation: Virtual World Event on Philanthropy

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Jonathan Fanton, above next to my Second Life avatar, engaged in a discussion with Philip Rosedale (Linden) of Linden labs about the role of civil society in virtual worlds and answered questions from the more than 200 avatars that packed the space. Linden gives the example of American Cancer Society.

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